Applying the Wizard-of-Oz framework to cooperative service discovery and configuration

This work describes how the Wizard-of-Oz framework can be applied to a service robotics scenario. A scenario called the home tour scenario involving a collaborative service discovery and configuration multimodal dialogue for the robot is described. The role of the Wizard operators producing dialogue and robot movements as well as the specific simulation tools used: the dialogue production tool and the joystick navigation tool are discussed. Some attention is paid to the pilot studies performed as a preparation for the unified home tour scenario.